Then the small trees that got chopped down today wouldn’t go to waste. They added nutrients to the soil and could even prevent landslides. I pondered these things as I followed Iwao back up the slope.
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Masanobu Fukuoka
f-masanobu.jpcan get some idea of the untapped potential of agriculture by reading F. H. King’s fascinating 1911 book, Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan, which explains how these regions sustained enormous populations for millennia on tiny amounts of land, without mechanization, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers.
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Permaculture: A way for humans to consciously design systems that support ourselves — food production, energy, buildings, transportation, technology, even human relationships and financial systems — while acknowledging our roles as equal, co-creative members of natural ecosystems with the ability to regenerate our environment while we’re providing
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